Pricing
How Sume bills API work: plans and one wallet, what one run cost, estimates before you run, avatar video rates, failed jobs, and 402 errors.
Start with How Sume pricing works: plans, one wallet, published model rates
Unit-test a Seedance 2.5 cost estimator against six billed amounts
Your own cost estimate for Seedance 2.5 should match what Sume bills to the micro-dollar. A Python assert test with six known amounts from 480p to 1080p 30 s.
ChatGPT Image 2.5 xhigh and max price grid, six sizes on Sume
What xhigh and max cost next to high on openai/gpt-image-2.5, from 1024 square to 4K: $0.117 and $0.264 at 1024x1024, $0.50 for max at 4K, with the default.
How fresh are Sume's video prices? Rate-card dates per model
Every Sume video price traces to a dated provider rate card from June to September 2026. The date per model, and what 'subject to change' means for a budget.
Draft 20 Wan 3.0 clips at 480p, then finish the best six at 1080p
Twenty 5-second Wan 3.0 drafts at 480p cost $6.40; finishing six at 1080p adds $7.50. All twenty at 1080p cost $25.00.
Seedance 2.5 cost per kept clip: 1 to 4 takes per keeper
What a kept 10-second Seedance 2.5 clip really costs on Sume when you reroll: $5.78 at one take per keeper, $17.34 at three, plus a 480p scouting variant.
Does an image cost more at 16:9 than 1:1 on Sume? Flat rows vs GPT 2.5
On most Sume image rows the ratio does not change the price. ChatGPT Image 2.5 is the exception: cost follows pixels and quality. Billed figures for both.
What n: 4 costs on each Sume image model: cost x n, billed table
Sume's image docs say you pay cost_usd x n. Four images cost 4x the per-image rate: $0.10 on Qwen Image, $0.40 on Nano Banana 2.1, $0.75 on Pro. Full table.
Prepaid or postpaid AI video API: how Sume bills, and invoices
Sume bills self-serve usage from a prepaid USD balance reserved at submit; Enterprise lists invoice and PO billing. A 30-second Wan 3.0 hold, worked.
Smallest AI video clip you can buy on Sume: shortest length, price
The shortest clips on Sume: Wan 3.0 from 2 s, Gemini Omni Flash from 3 s, Seedance from 4 s. Cheapest test render costs $0.1125, before a $0.0062 fee.
What does a daily 30-second AI short cost per month? Wan vs Seedance
Posting one 30-second AI short a day for 30 days costs $56.25 on Wan 3.0 at 480p and $520.02 on Seedance 2.5 at 720p in video alone, before the 5.5% fee.
Thumbnails for a 30-episode series: 3 options per episode, priced
Generating 3 thumbnail options for each of 30 episodes is 90 images. On Sume that costs about $0.47 to $9.50 across eight image models, with the fee. Worked.
Cost of one finished minute of AI video: video, voice, music, timeline
One finished 60-second video on Sume costs about $4.23 to $90.26 depending on model and resolution, with voice, music, timeline and fee included. Worked.
Finishing a 30-episode series: captions, upscale, cutouts on Sume
Captions, cutouts and upscales for 30 episodes of 45 seconds: speech-to-text is $0.225, video upscale $12.15. Computed from Sume rates.
30-episode AI Shorts series budget: 45-second episodes, priced
What a 30-episode series of 45-second AI episodes costs on Sume: video, voiceover, music and timeline per episode, then x30 plus the 5.5% fee, worked.
Price per second of 720p AI video on Sume: Wan, Omni, Seedance ranked
Ranked 720p price per second on Sume: Wan 3.0 and Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 at $0.125, Seedance 2.0 mini $0.1890 up to Seedance 2.5 at $0.5778, before the fee.
Sume TTS cost by length: 1 to 20,000 characters, rounded up
Sume TTS bills $0.0475 per 1,000 characters and rounds each job up to the cent. A ladder from 1 to 20,000 characters shows where the rounding costs you.
Seedance 2.5 price by aspect ratio: 9:16 vs 16:9 vs 1:1 on Sume
Does a vertical 9:16 Seedance 2.5 clip cost more than 16:9? On Sume a 10-second clip costs the same; 1:1 at 480p is cheaper, 4:3 slightly dearer. Table inside.
Sume price formula: list x 1.25 plus 5.5% fee, worked on six clips
How to predict a Sume bill: provider list price x 1.25 rounded up, then a 5.5% fee floored. Six video clips worked from list cost to hold, in micro-dollars.
Ten 2,000-character scripts: Eleven v4 sale vs list vs Sume TTS
Eleven v4 is $0.022 per 1K characters on sale until Oct 12 and $0.08 at list. Ten 2,000-character scripts cost $0.44, $1.60, or $1.00 on Sume TTS.
Can I render a Shorts season on Sume's Free plan?
Yes, in waves: the Free plan runs 1 job at a time and accepts 6, then returns 429 queue_full. Ten 30-second episodes need two submit waves.
What does a 10-episode Shorts season cost on Wan 3.0 at 720p?
Ten 60-second episodes on Wan 3.0 cost $75.00 at 720p, $37.50 at 480p and $150.00 at 1080p in Sume list prices. Per-second rates and the math inside.
What a 30-second Wan 3.0 job reserves on Sume: list price x 1.25
At submit Sume reserves provider list x 1.25. For Wan 3.0 at $0.05, $0.10, $0.20 per second, a 30-second job reserves $1.88, $3.75 or $7.50. Handle 402.
Wan 3.0 draft at 480p, final at 1080p: no seed means a full re-render
Sume lists Wan 3.0 at $0.0625, $0.125 and $0.25 per second at 480p, 720p, 1080p. No v1 model takes a seed, so a draft is a prompt test, not a preview.
Decagon Voice 3 price: what is public and how to size a pilot
Decagon's Voice 3 launch post lists no price. How to size a voice-agent pilot in call minutes, and what the speech parts cost on public rate cards.
What does one minute of AI speech cost? Gemini, MAI, Voxtral and Sume
Convert per-token, per-character and per-minute TTS prices to a cost per finished minute, with a stated 900 characters per minute assumption.
What an Omni video edit costs on Sume: the 8-second reserve hint
An Omni edit sends no duration to the provider, so Sume sizes the estimate from a hint (default 8 s). Table for 3, 5, 8 and 10 s at 720p, 1080p and 4K.
Seedance 2.5 with a reference video: how Sume prices a 30 s job
Sume's Seedance estimator adds 15 assumed input seconds when a reference video is present and multiplies by 0.6. At 720p, 10 s costs $8.67, not $5.78.
Seedance 2.5 price per second on Sume: 480p, 720p and 1080p
Seedance 2.5 on Sume costs about $0.27, $0.58 and $1.42 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p in 16:9. How the token math and the 1.25 factor get there.
Wan 3.0 price per second: fal's list rate vs what Sume bills
fal lists Wan 3.0 at $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 per second. Sume bills that list times 1.25: $0.0625, $0.125 and $0.25 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p.
Does Wan 3.0 cost less with the audio off? Same price on Sume
Wan 3.0 on Sume bills output seconds by resolution, so generate_audio true or false changes nothing: an 8-second 720p clip is $1.00 either way.
Is a square Seedance 2.5 clip cheaper than 16:9? 10 s on Sume
A 10-second Seedance 2.5 clip is $2.57 square and $2.69 at 16:9 at 480p, and the same $5.78 at 720p: Sume prices the pixels, so ratio matters little.
A 75-second AI video in three jobs (30 + 30 + 15): Wan vs Seedance
A 75-second video is three jobs of 30, 30 and 15 seconds: $9.38 on Wan 3.0 at 720p, $43.34 on Seedance 2.5 at 720p, before a small join.
Budget for 100 videos: 60 drafts, 30 at 720p, 10 at 1080p, 8 s each
A mixed set of 100 eight-second Omni Flash videos, 60 at 360p, 30 at 720p and 10 at 1080p, costs $63.00 on Sume against $150.00 if all were 1080p.
One 30-second Wan 3.0 job or four 8-second jobs: which costs less?
One 30-second Wan 3.0 clip at 720p is $3.75; four 8-second clips are $4.00 for 32 seconds. Per second the price is identical, so length is a quality call.
What a rejected take costs: 30-second Seedance 2.5 vs 8-second clip
A rejected 30-second Seedance 2.5 take costs $17.33 at 720p; a rejected 8-second take is $4.62. A failed job is refunded, but a clip you dislike is not.
A daily 9:16 clip for 30 days on Sume: what the month costs
A month of one 5-second vertical clip a day on Sume costs $18.90 on Omni 720p, $5.70 on Omni 360p, $15.00 on H3 Max 768p and $9.60 on Wan 480p. Table inside.
Cost per second of AI video on Sume: Omni, Wan and H3 Max priced
A per-second and per-clip price table for the video models Sume lists with a fal list price, after the Sora API ended, with the 1.25 multiple already applied.
A 150 ms TTS claim vs Sume's async TTS: which jobs need which
MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash claims 150 ms end to end. Sume TTS is an async job at $0.0475 per 1,000 characters. Where each fits, and 1,000 chat turns at 200 characters.
A 24-door advent calendar of AI clips: cost per door and per calendar
One card, one 5-second Wan 3.0 clip and one 200-character voice line per door: $8.95 for a light calendar, $17.29 mid-tier and $36.97 premium on Sume.
Bedtime story app: 365 nightly narrations and covers cost on Sume
A story a night for a year: 3,000-character narrations bill $54.75 on Sume TTS and covers on Ideogram 4.5 low add $13.69, so $68.44 for the year.
Can you top up Sume credits through the API? What the API does cover
No: Sume top-ups are a dashboard checkout. The API reads GET /v1/balance and GET /v1/usage, reserves at submit and returns 402 when short. A guard to build.
Car lot video: 60 vehicles, three 8-second clips each, on Wan 3.0
Photos to video for 60 vehicles with Wan 3.0 at 8 seconds a clip: $97.20 at 480p, $187.20 at 720p, $367.20 at 1080p with the render and a voice line.
Cheapest AI video clip on each Sume model: the shortest legal length
The smallest legal clip on nine Sume video models: Wan 3.0 at 2 s is $0.13, Omni 3 s $0.12, Seedance 2 Mini 4 s $0.36, H3 5 s $0.32, Seedance 2.5 4 s $1.08.
Cost per kept AI video clip when 1 in 2, 3 or 4 is a keeper on Sume
A 10-second clip price is not your cost per usable clip: at 1 in 2 keepers it doubles, at 1 in 4 it quadruples. Five Sume models compared at 10 seconds.
Holiday gift guide of 25 products: card, clip and voice cost on Sume
A holiday gift guide with 25 products, each a medium Ideogram card, a 5-second Wan 3.0 clip and a voice line, plus one render, comes to about $10.43 on Sume.
How much does a minute of AI voiceover cost? Measure it from one job
Cost per minute of voiceover depends on how fast the voice reads. Time one Sume TTS job, get characters per minute from word timestamps, and project the price.
Is a 540x960 preview render cheaper? Not on Sume Timeline
Sume prices Timeline 1.0 per whole output minute with no resolution term in the docs. Use the free plan to check a Short instead of paying for a small preview.
Price a Sume timeline render before you pay: the unbilled plan call
POST /v1/timeline-1.0/plan compiles a render without reserving credits and returns billable minutes and an estimated cost. What it prices, and what it cannot.